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Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person concerned automatically transitioned from Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) on the 25/03/2022 having been in receipt PUP at a rate of €208. The person concerned was awarded Jobseekers Benefit on the 25/3/2022 at a personal rate of €134.20; this rate is based on her average weekly earning in the Governing Year (2020). On week ending 06/04/2022 the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Ukraine War (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 983, 1016, 1073 and 1080 together. As of 22nd April 2022, the latest figures from my Department show that 25,784 PPS numbers have been provided to refugees arriving in Ireland from Ukraine. Table 1 shows the age and sex breakdown of the refugees arriving in Ireland. Age Male Female Total Under 18 ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Employment Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 984 to 987, inclusive, together. JobPath is an employment assistance and advice service that supports and assists people who are long-term unemployed, including those working part time, to secure and sustain full-time paid employment. It is not a job-placement service. All jobseekers over one year on the Live Register are eligible for selection to one...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 988, 1017 and 1029 together. A complete list of all ongoing secondment arrangements involving my Department is set out in the table. Civil Servants are paid in line with Civil Service Salary Scales. These are most recently outlined in Circular 04/2022. The issue of recouping the salary cost associated with secondments is determined on a case by case basis...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: My Department provides two main payment options for its customers: payment in cash at post offices or payment directly into customer accounts by Electronic Fund Transfer (EFT).  Last month, 71.7% of all Social Welfare payments were made by EFT and 27.9% were by cash collection at post offices.  A small number of ad hoc payments are also made by cheque, which represented less than...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Benefits (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The purpose of the Exceptional Needs Payment (ENP) is to assist people with essential, once-off, exceptional expenditure, which a person could not reasonably be expected to meet out of their weekly income. The ENP scheme is demand led and payments are made at the discretion of the officers administering the scheme taking into account the requirements of the legislation and all the relevant...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Employees of my Department are paid in line with Civil Service Salary Scales.  These are most recently outlined in Circular 04/2022.  The Department of Social Protection does not, at present, have any employees paid below €12.30 per hour.  Hourly wages are calculated using the standard 37-hour Civil Service working week. Neither the Citizens Information Board nor...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Offices (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Illness Benefit and Partial Capacity Benefit (PCB) contact centre is currently dealing with a high level of calls and queries due to the volume of Enhanced (COVID) Illness Benefit claims received in recent months.  This has led to some delays for customers who wish to contact the Partial Capacity Benefit section by phone. It is open to claimants to...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Redundancy Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I extend my sympathies to all employees of Roadbridge who have been affected by the decision by the Company to go into receivership and I know that this news will be very concerning for all the workers involved and their families The Redundancy Payments Act 1967, as amended, provides for the making of payments by employers to employees in respect of redundancy.  It is the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Carer's allowance (CA) is a means-tested social assistance payment made to a person who is habitually resident in the State and who is providing full-time care and attention to a child or an adult who has such a disability that as a result they require that level of care. It is a condition for receipt of CA that the applicant’s means are less than the statutory limit.  It is a...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The person in question is in receipt of invalidity pension.  An application for the national fuel scheme (fuel allowance) was received from the person concerned on 21 March 2022.  He was found eligible for fuel allowance with effect from 24 March 2022.  Notification  of this decision issued on 05 April 2022.  Arrears due will issue...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Departmental Staff (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The salaries and expenses paid to Ministers/Ministers of State and Advisors in my Department during 2020, 2021, and 2022 are set out beneath.  Please note that, while the Department pays the Ministerial salary and expenses, the TD salary is paid by the Oireachtas. - Jan - Jun 2020 Role Name Salary Expenses ...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Schemes (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: I propose to take Questions Nos. 999 and 1013 together. Parent’s Benefit is a scheme payable to parents who take parent’s leave from work. It provides five weeks payment to each parent of a child aged under two years, or in the two years following an adoption, who is on Parent’s Leave from work to care for their child and covered by social insurance (PRSI). A total of...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The details requested for the number and payments of Working Family Payments for 2021 and January 2022 to March 2022 inclusive are set out in the table below. WFP  Scheme Details I trust this clarifies the matter for the Deputy. 

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance scheme is a means tested payment to assist pensioners and other long-term social welfare dependent householders with their winter heating costs.  The payment is a contribution towards heating costs, it is not intended to meet these costs in full.  The payment is made at the weekly rate of €33.00; or if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Fuel Allowance scheme is a means tested payment to assist pensioners and other long-term social welfare dependent householders with their winter heating costs.  The payment is a contribution towards heating costs; it is not intended to meet these costs in full.  The payment is made at the weekly rate of €33.00; or if...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Jobseeker’s Allowance and Jobseeker’s Benefit are my Department’s two main statutory schemes providing income support to qualifying people who have lost employment and are unable to find full time work.  The estimated revised expenditure for 2022 for the statutory jobseekers schemes is approximately €2.17 billion. Young jobseekers are eligible to apply for the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: This Government acknowledges the important role that carers play and is fully committed to supporting them in that role.  The Programme for Government “Our Shared Future” includes a commitment to examine options for a pension solution for carers, the majority of whom are women, particularly those of incapacitated children, in recognition of the enormous value of the work...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: State Pensions (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: Subject to the standard qualifying conditions for State Pension (Contributory) also being satisfied, the State Pension system already provides significant recognition to those whose work history includes an extended period of time outside the paid workplace, often to raise families or in a full-time caring role. This is provided through the award of Credits, the application of the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Code (26 Apr 2022)

Heather Humphreys: The Covid-19 Pandemic Unemployment Payment (PUP) was introduced in response to the unprecedented disruption to the labour market caused by the Covid-19 Pandemic.  Over 880,000 people received payment under the scheme, with 28.8 million payments issuing at a cost of over €9 billion. The scheme has been wound up as Covid related restrictions have lifted.  A staged approach...